President Putin Says He Is Clueless about Economic Policy
A financial meltdown has ravaged Russia in the last two weeks in a fashion reminiscent of 2008 and 1998. The value of the ruble…
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The Kremlin’s Alleged Man in Tallinn
On Sunday, 14 December, Interfax ran a claim from Russia’s federal security service FSB that an Estonian Internal Security Service (Kaitsepolitsei) official had been…
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Separatism in Karelia More Serious than Many Think, Petrozavodsk Deputy Says
Staunton — Karelian nationalists who call for the independence of their republic and raise “unnecessary and harmful questions about additional state languages” there are…
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Putin’s Political and Ideological Struggle With The West
Russia’s confrontation with the West seems to have entered into a new, existentialist phase: a fierce political and ideological battle that the Kremlin apparently…
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Russia Waging Effective Info-War in Baltics, NATO Expert Says
Staunton – Moscow is waging a highly effective information war in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with its “Russia Today” television broadcasts in their national…
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Is Putin Prepared to Die for Narva?
Staunton – Ever since Vladimir Putin began his aggression in Ukraine and sent signals that he was prepared to move against the Baltic countries,…
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75 Years On Russia Again Engaged in a Winter War
Staunton – Seventy-five years ago today, Moscow launched what became known as the Winter War against Finland. It used much the same propaganda and…
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Ukraine Seen Forming New Military ‘Troika’ with Lithuania and Poland
Staunton, November 26 – Having reluctantly concluded that it will not get the assistance it needs from NATO as a whole, the Ukrainian government…
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‘Americans are Prepared to Die for Latvia,’ Nuland Says
Staunton, November 22 – When the Ukrainian crisis began, some commentators in the West suggested that NATO would not in the end fight to…
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Riding “Friekbikes” Towards The Apocalypse
Plagues, nuclear armageddon, alien invasions…when or how the apocalypse arrives is anyone’s guess. But there’s a Latvian underground biking collective named in anticipation of…
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